On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 08:57:30PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: > I might be confused here. I thought that if you accessed the block > device, you were restricted to blocks. So you can in fact not seek > to an arbitrary byte, nor read an arbitrary length, like for a > normal file, but instead offsets and sizes must be multiples of the > block size. > > But reading through the man-pages now, I cannot find any references > to this, so maybe I just dreamt that whole thing?
That's what I'd thought too... fwiw. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org